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Glasgow City Halls

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The "Grand Hall", or main City Hall auditorium, which is a traditional "shoebox"-shaped hall with very fine acoustics seating 1066 in total. This is the home of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (SSO) which rehearses, records and performs here. The stage can accommodate an orchestra of over 90 and
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was its conductor for two seasons from 1875 to 1877. The Old Fruitmarket directly adjoins the grand hall and was a functioning market until the 1970s after which it was in occasional use for jazz and folk music events. The adjoining buildings were home to bustling produce markets such as the fresh
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The City Halls and Old Fruitmarket re-opened in January 2006 after undergoing a period of extensive renovation. The refurbished halls are now the home of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Scottish Music Centre, both members of a partnership with the City Council and Glasgow Cultural
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The City Halls are part of a market complex designed by John Carrick in 1882, but the grand hall itself was designed by George Murray and opened in 1841. It was the first hall suitable for large gatherings and concerts to be built in the City and played host to the likes of
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The Old Fruitmarket, an atmospheric venue still retaining its market hall character with a flexible capacity of 1000–2000. This is used for jazz and traditional music events, and also by the BBC SSO for more experimental contemporary music
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Enterprises. The hall is also the regular performance space for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in Glasgow and is a centre for music education with the city's Education Department as a key participant.
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Acoustics provided the acoustic design for the renovation, working closely with the architects Civic Design, venue consultants Arup Venue Consultancy and engineers Arup Scotland.
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The venue consists of several performance venues under one roof, managed by Glasgow Cultural Enterprises (which also manages The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall):
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there are choir seats for 110. The hall is also used regularly by the (Edinburgh-based) Scottish Chamber Orchestra for its Glasgow concerts and by the
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The City Halls also houses the Scottish Music Centre, offices and recording facilities for the BBC SSO, and extensive music education facilities.
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The Recital Room, a new space suitable for chamber music, seating around 100.
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in 1990. It has also been a venue for many of Glasgow's Festivals, including
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is a concert hall and former market located on Candleriggs, in the
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Glasgow City Hall
Glasgow City Chambers

Merchant City
Glasgow
Scotland
Benjamin Disraeli
Charles Dickens
Lajos Kossuth
William Ewart Gladstone
Louis-Antoine Jullien
Charles Halle
Arthur Sullivan
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
St Andrews Hall
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Celtic Connections
Jazz Festival
category A listed building
Scottish Ensemble
Arup
Culture in Glasgow
Historic Environment Scotland
"60-106 (Even Nos) Candleriggs 3-31 (Odd Nos) Bell Street and 69-97 (Odd Nos) Albion Street Candleriggs City Hall and Bazaar (Category A Listed Building) (LB32647)"
Renovation of the City Halls, The Scotsman
Glasgow City Halls website
Glasgow Cultural Enterprises website
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra website

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